1. The
origin of Chingis Khaan, Buerte-Chino (bluish wolf) was born
having the destiny ordained by Heaven Above. Burte-Chino with
his wife Gua-Maral (fallow dow) came crossing the Tengis-Dalai
(Ocean-lake), and settled at the Burkhan Khaldun Mount at the
head of the Onon river. And their son Bat-tsagaan was born.

is the first literary monument concerning the
Mongols. It is believed to have been written in the year 1240 A.D. The
copy of The Secret History which has survived to our days were
transcribed with Chinese characters from some original manuscript in one
of the mongolian scripts. Some scholars believe it to be the Uighur
script, others proposed h`Pags-pa script (Quadratschrift) only few think
that it was originally recorded by Chinese characters. This copy was
written about 14th century and contained Mongolian text (in Chinese
fonetic transcription ) and the Chinese translation. First man from
Europe who discovered this manuscript was Russian archimandrite Palladij.
He was a member of the Russian Orthodox Mission in China. He was an
outstanding sinologist not mention his missionarial abilities. In 1866
he translated Chinese part of The Secret History into Russian with a
considerable contractions. The name of this work in russian translation
was "Старинное монгольское сказание о Чингис-хане" ("An old mongolian
tale about Genghis Khan"). After that, the full text of the "Secret
History" was published by S.A.Kozin in Leningrad (1941), E.Haenisch in
Berlin (1948), P.Pelliot in Paris (1949). Very important works were the
dictionary of the language of the Secret History of the Mongols (Haenisch
E. 1962) and the index to the manuscript compiled by Igor de Rachewiltz
(1972).